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Transcriptions of three letters from Raphael Ward Benton to his wife, Mary Ann Hotchkiss. The first letter is from Camp Foote, Hartford dated August 17, 1862. The second letter is from New York dated August 26, 1862. The third letter is from Fort…

This house was originally on Broad Street, on the site where the First Congregational Church now stands. Lot Benton and his wife, Catherine Lyman (of Middletown) had no children of their own but had adopted Mrs. Benton’s nephew, Lyman Beecher. …